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After nearly two decades of deflation zapped all interest in Japanese real estate, has the time finally come to take another look?

UBS analyst Yosuke Ohata believes so. Speaking Wednesday at a WSJ Café Tokyo event, Mr. Ohata said the world’s second-largest real-estate investment market after the U.S. is no longer an opportunity to cast aside.

“Until last year, Japan was a large market, but people could ignore it. Now, you can’t,” he said. Read More »

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